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Merissa Badenhorst
Merissa Badenhorst

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I'm shipping 12 AI-built apps in 12 months. Here's where I'm at.

4 months in. 4 apps live. 8 to go.
The rules I set myself:

  1. Every app is free.
  2. Apps don't have to be perfect, they just have to be shipped.
  3. Each app gets a proper write-up about what the AI actually did (and where it fell flat).

So far:

  • Fasting Tracker — intermittent fasting timer, no fluff
  • Potty Panda — potty training milestone tracker (yes, really)
  • unvAIl — daily game: real image or AI-generated?
  • Timeagotchi — time tracking disguised as a tamagotchi

Just shipped a write-up on building Potty Panda with vibe coding — including where it went sideways.

Also just relaunched the portfolio with a full rebrand: dark mode, animated gradients, terminal-style app cards. Developer-native instead of generic.

I'd genuinely love constructive feedback — on the apps, the writing, the approach, any of it. I'm building this to learn AI assisted engineering specifically, so honesty and encouragement would be awesome.

Check it out here thehelpfuldev.com

What would you build if you had to ship one thing a month?

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